Compton denis foreword (4 Ergebnisse)

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Soft cover. Zustand: Good. Good for year paperback: The book is in good readable condition but there may be slight folding, tanning, marks, wear to covers etc. 44 pages.

Zustand: Near Fine. First edition hard back binding in publisher's original green paper covered boards, gilt title and author lettering to the spine. 8vo. 8½'' x 6''. Contains 267 printed pages of text with monochrome illustrations and photographs throughout. Light dust marking to the yellowed page edges. Near Fine clean condition book in near Fine condition dust wrapper with minimal rubs, not price clipped. Dust wrapper supplied in archive acetate film protection, it does not adhere to the book or to the dust wrapper. Member of the P.B.F.A. ISBN 0233988688 SPORT [Cricket].…

This is a handsome author's binding of Alan Hill's great biography of the first-class cricketer, Bill Edrich, signed by Hill and the foreword's author, Denis Compton. Hill was a prominent English biographer of cricketers who also published biographies of the likes of Herbert Sutcliffe, Jim Laker, and Brian Close. Edrich was one of a family of cricketers, whose show-stopping career playing for England spanned from 1938 to 1955. Compton had a similarly spectacular career playing for England, 1937-1957. Lord's Cricket Ground named stands after both of them in 1991. Number III of XX limited edition copies for the authors and publishers, signed by both authors in pen on limitation page; 8vo; green endpapers, 16 pages of illustrations, a few more in-text images and tables in appendices; publisher's green morocco, spine lettered in gilt, top edge gilt, green slipcase; a very good copy; xx, 267pp. …